Re:US breaks up IRS phone scam operation
by SOLAR_FIELDS on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:29AM
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If I remember correctly from the conversation I mentioned above: this is only implementable yourself with a VOIP solution and not an actual phone line?
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As long as you have a programmable PBX with POTS support (e.g. Asterisk with a telephony expansion card [1]), you can do this with landlines too.
[1] https://www.asterisk.org/products/telephony-interface-cards
I really recommend against introducing analog anything into a modern VoIP system in 2018. Better to port your landline's DID to a VoIP service and route it from there. If you need a physical landline looking phone, good quality sip desk phones are $50 (assuming you don't care about huge color screens).
Re:US breaks up IRS phone scam operation
by supertrope on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:19AM
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Definitely. End-to-end digital is best for fidelity and reliability. Running your own PBX is another point of failure for a service most people expect very high uptime out of, and opens you up to toll fraud. It's only worth it if you have a lot of phone or want call recording or transferring.